{"id":591,"date":"2004-02-18T09:57:35","date_gmt":"2004-02-18T09:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2004\/02\/awards\/"},"modified":"2004-02-18T09:57:35","modified_gmt":"2004-02-18T09:57:35","slug":"awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s the award season again, so I’ll stick my neck out and have a shot at Oscar predictions based on winners so far, and who I think the Academy will pick as their winners. Note that this does NOT take into account who should actually win. That’d never do.
\nThe weekend saw The BAFTAS and Lost in Translation cleaned up with the main actor and actress roles, while Lord of the Rings: Return of the King did well in the major categories, and Peter Weir won the best director. I was most pleased to see Touching the Void win British film of the year.
\nBut back to my Oscar predictions, in which I don’t even have to have seen the films to pick the winner!
\nBest Film – Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
\nBest Actor – Sean Penn, Mystic River
\nBest Actress – Charlize Theron, Monster
\nBest Director – Peter Jackson, Lord of the Rings
\nActor in a Supporting Role – Benicio Del Toro, 21 Grams
\nActress in a Supporting Role – Ren\ufffde Zellwegger, Cold Mountain
\nAnimated Feature – Finding Nemo
\nArt Direction – Master and Commander
\nCinematography – Girl With A Pearl Earring
\nCostume Design – Lord of the Rings
\nFilm Editing – Lord of the Rings
\nMakeup – Lord of the Rings
\nMusic – Cold Mountain
\nMusic (Song) – Cold Mountain
\nSound Editing – Master and Commander
\nSound Mixing – Lord of the Rings
\nVisual Effects – Lord of the Rings
\nWriting (Adapted Screenplay) – Lord of the Rings
\nWriting (Original Screenplay) – Lost in Translation
\nI’ll come back to this to see how many I got right.
\n(The Guardian has an entertaining predictor Excel sheet<\/a> for the overall Oscar winner)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s the award season again, so I’ll stick my neck out and have a shot at Oscar predictions based on winners so far, and who I think the Academy will pick as their winners. Note that this does NOT take into account who should actually win. That’d never do. The weekend saw The BAFTAS and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}